Actually, the better question is: When will they replace most desktop Linux programs?

  • phx@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hope the opposite, because I bloody hate how everything is a huge package. I don’t want to download a bunch of massive packaged apps just because one library needed to be updated, or have one packaged app with a persistent security flaws because - despite me updating the library in my system - it’s still running an older version.

    I hate that shit doesn’t work because the monolithic container conflicts with local security policies (for example, when I couldn’t use separate browser profile directories).

    Everything is huge now and while drives are bigger these apps are taking way more then their fair share

    I hate running “mount” to see my partitions and seeing a dozen freaking snaps.

    It may be a useful solution for a few key apps - similar to the “portable apps” on Windows but I don’t want everything to be a damn snap and personally wish I had more choice as to what was (but in make cases they’ve supplanted native packages entirely).